McDowell Spells Doomsday

British thesp Malcolm McDowell has joined the cast of Rogue Pictures' action thriller Doomsday, which is in its final month of principal photography under writer/director Neil Marshall (The Descent).

The genre vet is currently seen as Linderman on the hit NBC series Heroes, and recently wrapped his role as Dr. Loomis in Rob Zombie's Halloween update.

In Doomsday, McDowell will play Kane, the brilliant scientist who is the only true expert on the lethal Reaper virus that an elite group of specialists -- led by Eden (Rhona Mitra) and monitored by Nelson (Bob Hoskins) -- is battling through what one character calls "hell on earth" to retrieve a cure for.

McDowell's credits include A Clockwork Orange, Star Trek: Generations, Blue Thunder, I Spy, and the HBO series Entourage.